Professor Ann Hood

Ann Hood was born in West Warwick, Rhode Island. She is the author of the bestselling novels The Knitting Circle , The Red Thread , and The Obituary Writer . Her memoir, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief , was named one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly and was a New York Times Editors' Choice. Her other novels include Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine , Waiting to Vanish , Three-Legged Horse , Something Blue , Places to Stay the Night , The Properties of Water , and...See more

Ann Hood was born in West Warwick, Rhode Island. She is the author of the bestselling novels The Knitting Circle , The Red Thread , and The Obituary Writer . Her memoir, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief , was named one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly and was a New York Times Editors' Choice. Her other novels include Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine , Waiting to Vanish , Three-Legged Horse , Something Blue , Places to Stay the Night , The Properties of Water , and Ruby . She has also written a memoir, Do Not Go Gentle: My Search for Miracles in a Cynical Time ; a book on the craft of writing, Creating Character Emotions ; and a collection of short stories, An Ornithologist's Guide to Life . Her essays and short stories have appeared in many publications, including the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , the Atlantic Monthly , Tin House , Ploughshares , and the Paris Review . Hood has won awards for the best American spiritual writing, travel writing, and food writing; the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction; and two Pushcart Prizes. She now lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her husband and their children. See less